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[[File:Герхард Оппитц 12 октября.jpg|thumb|right|Gerhard Oppitz at the [[Yeltsin Center]] in 2017]]
'''Gerhard Oppitz''' (born 5 February 1953, [[Frauenau]]) is a [[Germans|German]] [[classical music|classical]] [[pianist]].<ref name="Philharmoniker Stuttgart">{{cite web | title=Gerhard Oppitz | website=Stuttgarter Philharmoniker | url=https://www.stuttgarter-philharmoniker.de/115 | language=de | access-date=29 November 2020}}</ref>

He studied with Paul Buck, [[Hugo Steurer]] and [[Wilhelm Kempff]]. In 1981 he was appointed professor at the [[Hochschule für Musik und Theater München]]<ref>[http://website.musikhochschule-muenchen.de/de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=39&Itemid=74 Lehrkräfte der Hochschule für Musik und Theater München] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110903025104/http://website.musikhochschule-muenchen.de/de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=39&Itemid=74 |date=3 September 2011 }} [[Hochschule für Musik und Theater München]]</ref>{{snd}}the youngest in the history of the institute{{snd}}where he still teaches. As a soloist he has appeared with many famous conductors and orchestras of the world. In the summer 1977, at the age of 24, Oppitz was the first German to win the [[Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition]] in Tel Aviv, Israel.<ref name="Symphoniker Hamburg 2020">{{cite web | title=Gerhard Oppitz | website=Symphoniker Hamburg | date=2 November 2020 | url=https://www.symphonikerhamburg.de/orchester/gerhard-oppitz-143/ | language=de | access-date=29 November 2020}}</ref>

Performance of cycles of complete piano works feature strongly in his concert repertoire, including Schubert's and [[Edvard Grieg|Grieg]]'s solo piano works and the sonatas [[Piano sonatas (Beethoven)|by Beethoven]] and Mozart's sonatas and, especially, the complete works of [[Johannes Brahms]]. He has recorded the challenging Max Reger [[Piano Concerto (Reger)|Piano Concerto]], Op. 114, with the [[Bamberg Symphony Orchestra]] and conductor [[Horst Stein]].

In 2009 he received the [[Brahms-Preis]] from the Brahms Society of Schleswig-Holstein.<ref name="Klavier-Festival Ruhr 2020">{{cite web | title=Gerhard Oppitz | website=Klavier-Festival Ruhr | date=13 January 2020 | url=https://www.klavierfestival.de/artist/gerhard-oppitz/ | language=de | access-date=29 November 2020}}</ref>

Among his students are [[Valentina Babor]] and [[Milana Chernyavska]].

==References==
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==External links==
* {{DNB portal|119526298}}
* [http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Oppitz-Gerhard.htm Gerhard Oppitz (Piano)] bach-cantatas.com
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121105073812/http://www.bso.org/g-m/_gerhard-oppitz.aspx Biography on Boston Symphony Orchestra page, accessed 21 October 2011]
* [http://www.tokafi.com/15questions/15questionsgerhardoppitz/ Interview for Tokafi, accessed 21 October 2011]

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